No, the publisher was talking about actual plagiarism
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
Oh thats right. The style person was some kind ofnpoetry student. Be that as it may
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
how do you feel about allusion?what if the lift is in a character's voice?do we need to re-evaluate jean rhys?
i liked this but better if it rhymed
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
The publisher was out of line too.
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
Eh the publisher said a true thing (“this is unacceptable”) in kinda ott language (“evil”), I’m p whatever about the idea that @GhostCityPress might take poetry too seriously
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
evil is a stupid term at best of times, when tweeted in reference to something someone did in poetry then the tweeter should be taken out to a main square and kicked to death on a stage
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
Evil is a good and useful term it means very bad fyi
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
100% rise in Twitter hyperbole-related public kicking deaths this year. Be safe out there.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
thats progress is that
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
If they’re poets they should be careful with their language!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xp
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
well that really goes for all writers but: they aren't
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
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It kinda does with my Danish accent
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
This is a very clear-cut case of plagiarism, though.
― emil.y, Tuesday, December 4, 2018
no question. it wouldn't be worth discussion except for the Too Extreme For America conversation going on around it.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 8 December 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9BwWKXjVaI
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 8 December 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link
The interesting thing about plagiarism in contemporary poetry is that there's loads of it (fella called If a Lightman writes about it a lot and does some detective work on it). Probably because so much poetry is published but so little read, plagiarism can easily hide.
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 8 December 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/09/poetry-plagiarism-copying-maya-angelou-ira-lightman-will-storr
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 8 December 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
“oh gosh I was practicing this extremely advanced thing called intertextuality and forgot the appropriate attributions...”hanging’s too good for these charlatans
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 8 December 2018 04:08 (five years ago) link
young adult publishing is the cutting edge these days
https://www.vulture.com/2019/01/ya-twitter-forces-rising-star-author-to-self-cancel.html
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 February 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
Fun
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Friday, 1 February 2019 20:42 (five years ago) link
Something similar happened in YA a while ago—a book got tagged as racist before it was released due to some cocnerns about appropriation or something. pvmic and all, but i find these rigid ideas of what people have the right to represent actually terrifying.
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 1 February 2019 20:49 (five years ago) link
geez, treesh, won't you think of the children?
― sarahell, Saturday, 2 February 2019 00:16 (five years ago) link
these ppl are so fucking stupid
god help us all
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 2 February 2019 00:25 (five years ago) link
What’s maddening is that it grows from a legitimate form of critique. Some forms of representation do reproduce harmful ideas, even if on the surface it doesn’t look that way. Publishing has elevated certain stories over others, and correcting this imbalance is definitely a valid editorial objective.
But I just think when it comes to these flare ups, people are using this form of critique as a cover for vapid point-scoring. And they’re also taking too rigid a line—overlooking the distinction between what might be problematic, and worth discussing, and what is like, morally unacceptable speech that needs to be swiftly codemned.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link
The discourse is completely reactive and the pattern is always the same—one person is “called out” and dragged before a (metaphorical) firing squad. And then when they or others complain this an unbalanced response, they get accused of tone policing or comparing someone’s career being derailed to real injustice—which is of course usually isn’t what’s happened
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:50 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/02/zadie-smith-political-correctness-hay-cartagena
― pomenitul, Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
I love zadie smith. Didn’t read the article yet but probably otm
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
Didn’t read the article yet but probably otm
I love you Treeship, but new board description?
― Frederik B, Saturday, 2 February 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
Good idea, yeah. Your quote’s been on there long enough.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 2 February 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
Yeah, that was the partly the reason...
― Frederik B, Saturday, 2 February 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
you're such a treeship, treeship
― j., Saturday, 2 February 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link
This is just... wow: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/a-suspense-novelists-trail-of-deceptions/amp?__twitter_impression=true
― just1n3, Monday, 4 February 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link
Seriously.
― JoeStork, Monday, 4 February 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
Though for all the horrifying, jaw-dropping lies, the point at which I had to take a break was the mention of the friend who wrote a story featuring a charming manipulator named Tom Rigbey.
― JoeStork, Monday, 4 February 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
Halfway through and wow... Will withhold judgement till I finish it but: it's amazing how much one person can get away with
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
xp haha
good read but not surprising I don’t think? I just assume the literary world is set up for guys like this
I adore highsmith but what a terrible and boring legacy at this point
― sciatica, Monday, 4 February 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
good read but not surprising
i work in publishing and yep lol
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:49 (five years ago) link
woah I'm 95% sure I did my year abroad at oxford at the same time as this dude at the same college
― rob, Monday, 4 February 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link
The oblivious, upbeat father at the end is a great touch.
― George R. R. Caro (PBKR), Monday, 4 February 2019 22:00 (five years ago) link
was thinking of Jeffrey Archer right up until the piece mentions him in passing but this lad ends up making him look like an honest grafter in comparison fair play
― Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 07:58 (five years ago) link
Surely he deserves to have all this attention lavished upon him. Surely this tale of mythomania hasn't been told countless times already. Surely this won't vindicate his behaviour and further contribute to his tedious legend.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 08:33 (five years ago) link
the process is tedious and demoralizing but necessary imo
the company who published and promoted his book come off looking particularly bad here. who at that company decided to publish the book?
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 08:41 (five years ago) link
this dude's book sounds pretty terrible
NY article was an amazing read, tho
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 08:44 (five years ago) link
Didn't like the way some of his actions were explained away as some weird Ripley copy.
Lol @ Craig Raine.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 10:59 (five years ago) link
yowww that article is fuckin wild
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 11:37 (five years ago) link
The book sounds like hot garbage but i guess that’s what the American reading public hungers for so whose fault is it really
― Mordy, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
maybe the real psychopaths... are us
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:15 (five years ago) link
gone girl deserves better copycats than this and the girl on the train
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
This guy sounds more like a pathological liar than a con artist. Some of these lies had the effect of burnishing his reputation but he was really sloppy about it. And other lies he took farther than he needed to if he was just trying to become a powerful editor
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:27 (five years ago) link
I haven't read the article, but this guy's book is a dumb domestic thriller novel not a memoir, right? Who gives a fuck if he's a liar?
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link